About

Michael Kloihofer is a practicing Architect and Lecturer in Architecture, with over 10 years of experience in teaching and over 15 years practicing architecture in several countries and across several disciplines.

 

Michael teaches architecture at Oxford Brookes University, where he is unit leader of DS4 Masters design studio. « Timber revolution » , and other subjects including praxis is architecture, representation, Apprenticeships, Management Practice and Law, and director of the live build bamboo workshops in Bali and Borneo.

 

At the University of Westminster, school of architecture he also teaches a course in digital craft and CNC joinery, looking at experimental expressions of timber joinery.

 

Michael has had over 10 years teaching experience, mainly in architecture but also in interior architecture and visualisation.

And is a regular visiting critic at the Architectural Association School of Architecture

 

Michael studied Architecture at the University of Waterloo, Canada and did his Masters at the Architectural Association in London.

 

He is particularly interested in learning through making and experimentation, the process of design, Timber craft, fabrication and construction, visualization and storytelling through imagery, and has delivered several talks around these topics. In particular, his interests lie in the future of timber fabrication and craft as part of the future for a Carbon Negative future, which is a theme explored in his design studio.

 

Michael has been in practice as an architect since 2013, with experience in including, Architecture, interior design, public spaces, and object design, and including concept designs for a car, a yacht, and several award winning buildings. Most notably Coal drops Yard, Olympia London, as a long standing member and current fellow at Heatherwick studio. And the National Graphene Institute and several high end interiors projects at jestico and Whiles.